Polycystic kidney disease PKD2 gene and uses thereof

ABSTRACT

The present invention provides a purified and isolated wild type PKD2 gene, as well as mutated forms of this gene. The present invention also provides one or more single-stranded nucleic acid probes which specifically hybridize to the wild type PKD2 gene or the mutated PKD2 gene, and mixtures thereof, which may be formulated in kits, and used in the diagnosis of ADPKD associated with the mutated PKD2 gene. The present invention also provides a method for diagnosing ADPKD caused by a mutated PKD2 gene, as well as a method for treating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease caused by a mutated PKD2 gene.

STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST

This invention was made with government support under NIH Grant Nos. DK48383 and DK02015. As such, the government has certain rights in this invention.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention is based upon the discovery by the inventors of the PKD2 gene associated with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease ("ADPKD"), the "PKD2 gene" or "PKD2", and a novel protein encoded by this gene. The discovery of the PKD2 gene and the protein encoded by the gene will have important implications in the diagnosis and treatment of ADPKD caused by defects in the PKD2 gene.

ADPKD is a genetically heterogeneous disorder that affects approximately 500,000 Americans and five million individuals world wide, and accounts for 8 to 10% of all end stage renal disease (ESRD) worldwide (Gabow, P. A. N. Eng. J. Med. 329:332 (1993)). Its principal clinical manifestation is bilateral renal cysts that result in chronic renal failure in about 45% of affected individuals by age 60 (Gabow, P. A., supra). Hypertension and liver cysts are common, and the involvement of other organ systems (Gabow, P. A., et al. Kidney Int. 38:1177 (1990); Chapman, A. B., et al. N. Eng. J. Med. 327:916 (1992); Hossack, K. F., et al. N. Eng. J. Med. 319:907 (1988); Torres, V. E., et al. Am. J. Kidney Dis. 22:513 (1993); Huston, J., et al. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 3:1871 (1993); Somlo, S., et al. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 4:1371 (1993)) lends support to the view that polycystic kidney disease is a systemic disorder (Gabow, P. A., supra).

To date, most forms of ADPKD have been associated with two genes, PKD1 and PKD2. The full genomic structure and cDNA sequence for the PKD1 gene has been identified (The International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, Cell 81:289 (1995); The American PKD1 Consortium, Hum. Mol. Genet. 4:575 (1995)). Mutations in the PKD1 gene are suspected of causing 80-90% of all cases of ADPKD. The PKD2 gene has been localized on chromosome 4q21-23 and accounts for approximately 15% of affected families (Kimberling, W. J., et al. Genomics 18:467 (1993); Peters, D. J. M. and L. A. Sandkuijl Contrib. Nephrol. 97:128 (1992)). Prior to the present invention, however, the PKD2 gene had not been identified.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides a purified and isolated wild type PKD2 gene, as well as mutated forms of this gene. The present invention also provides one or more single-stranded nucleic acid probes which specifically hybridize to the wild type PKD2 gene or the mutated PKD2 gene, and mixtures thereof, which may be formulated in kits, and used in the diagnosis of ADPKD associated with the mutated PKD2 gene.

The present invention also provides a vector comprising nucleic acid encoding an active PKD2 protein, a cell stably transformed with this vector, as well as a method for producing recombinant, active PKD2 protein. A purified, active PKD2 protein is also provided by the present invention. In addition, the present invention provides an antibody immunoreactive with a wild type PKD2 protein, as well as an antibody immunoreactive with a mutant PKD2 protein, which may be formulated in kits, and used in the diagnosis of ADPKD associated with the mutated PKD2 gene.

The present invention further provides a method for diagnosing ADPKD caused by a mutated PKD2 gene in an adult subject suspected of having the disease comprising detecting the presence of a mutated PKD2 gene in nucleic acid of the subject. The present invention still further provides a method for treating ADPKD caused by a mutated PKD2 gene in a subject in need of such treatment comprising the delivery and expression of a functional PKD2 gene into a sufficient number of cells of the subject to treat the disease. A stem cell which expresses the PKD2 gene introduced therein through viral transduction, homologous recombination or transfection is also provided by the invention.

In addition, the present invention provides a recombinant viral vector for treating a defect in the PKD2 gene in a target cell comprising (a) the nucleic acid of or corresponding to at least a portion of the genome of a virus, which portion is capable of directing the infection of the target cell, and (b) a PKD2 gene operably linked to the viral nucleic acid and capable of being expressed as a functional gene product in the target cell.

Finally, the present invention provides a vector and an embryonic stem cell each of which comprises a mutated PKD2 gene, a non-human, transgenic animal whose germ and somatic cells contain a mutated PKD2 gene sequence introduced into said animal, or an ancestor thereof, at an embryonic stage, as well as a method for producing the non-human, transgenic animal.

Additional objects of the invention will be apparent from the description which follows.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1A represents the subset of STSs from the high density map of the PKD2 region showing polymorphic loci flanking the interval. JSTG3 and AICA1 are two of nine microsatellite markers in this region developed previously. SPP1 (osteopontin, STS4-1078) and D4S1171 were used to screen the P1 library as described in Materials and Methods. Other sources of STSs include published linkage maps and genome center databases. cen, centromere; tel telomere. Distances are in Morgans along chromosome 4.

FIG. 1B shows representative mega-YACs (Cohen, D., et al. Nature 366:698 (1993)), and their STS content, forming a contig around the PKD2 region.

FIG. 1C shows the minimum tiling path of the cosmid and P1 contig in the PKD2 region. Clone names beginning with "c" and "p" refer to cosmid and P1 clones, respectively; addresses are from the original arrayed libraries. The clones containing JSTG3 and AICA1 are shown; a single gap of <40 kb is indicated by the arrow.

FIG. 1D shows the detail of the portion of the contig containing the PKD2 candidate gene, cTM-4.

FIG. 1E shows overlapping map of nine cDNA clones for cTM-4 and a composite schematic at the bottom. Clones K1-1 and K1-5 are from the adult kidney library; clones yj63h09 and yc93g07 were identified by GenBank searching and are from the normalized infant brain library (Soares, M. B., et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 9228 (1994)); all other clones are from the fetal brain library. Shaded areas represent chimeric portions of clones.

FIG. 2 represents expression of the PKD2 candidate gene. Insert from cTM-4B3-3 (FIG. 1E) was used as a hybridization probe on mRNA blots containing human tissues (Clonetech, Palo Alto, Calif.). Hybridization was performed without pre-competition and a final wash stringency of 0.5× SSC, 0.1% SDS at 65° C. Tissues in numbered lanes are: (1) heart, (2) brain, (3) placenta, (4) lung, (5) liver, (6) skeletal muscle, (7) kidney, (8) pancreas, (9) spleen, (10) thymus, (11) prostate, (12) testis, (13) ovary, (14) small intestine, (15) colon, (16) leukocytes, (17) fetal brain, (18) fetal lung, (19) fetal liver, (20) fetal kidney. At bottom, β-actin hybridization to the same blots is used to compare relative mRNA loading within each blot.

FIG. 3 depicts the mutations in PKD2 from an analysis of genomic PCR products in three PKD2 families. Left panel shows the results of direct sequencing of genomic PCR products from affected individuals. The arrows denote double peaks, confirmed by sequencing in both directions, indicative of heterozygosity at that nucleotide. Each of the mutant alleles results in a premature stop codon. The right panel demonstrates segregation of the mutated allele with the disease phenotype. In families 97 and 1605, the affected alleles are not digested by Bsr I and Taq I, respectively, since the restriction sites are lost by mutation. Family 1601 shows segregation of the single strand conformational analysis (SSCA) variant, indicated by the arrow, with the disease phenotype. For each family, only portions of more extensive pedigrees are shown. Filled symbols, affected individuals. Open symbols, unaffected individuals. M, 100 bp ladder.

FIG. 4A depicts the deduced amino acid sequence of PKD2 (cTM-4) (GenBank accession: gblU50928) in alignment with PKD1 (gb|U24497), the C. elegans homolog of PKD1 (ZK945.9; swiss|Q09624) and VACCα1E-1 (pir|B54972) using BESTFIT (Program Manual for the Wisconsin Package, Version 8, September 1994): identity to cTM-4, |; similarity to cTM-4, :. Numbers in parentheses refer to amino acids in respective sequences. Putative transmembrane domains, tm1 to tm6. Predicted N-glycosylation sites, *. Potential phosphorylation sites with strong consensus sequences: protein kinase C, +; cGMP dependent kinase, open square (Ser 826 is also consistent with a protein kinase A site); casein kinase, open circle. The sites of the nonsense mutations (FIG. 3) are indicated by arrows labeled with the respective family numbers. The EF-hand domain is indicated by the dashed line.

FIG. 4B shows alignment of the EF-hand domain with the EF-hand test sequence. The residues E, G, I, and E, the latter being a Ca²⁺ coordination vertex, are the expected residues at the indicated positions in the EF-hand. Positions indicated as "n" are expected to have hydrophobic amino acids (L, I, V, F, M); those denoted with * should be oxygen-containing amino acids (D, N, E, Q, S, T) comprising the remainder of coordination vertices for Ca²⁺ binding; the -Y vertex can be any amino acid. The Leu (L) in PKD2 in place of the Ile (I) is likely a permissible substitution; PKD2 has Gln (Q) in place of the consensus Gly (G) as is the case with EF-hand domains in the α1 Na⁺ channels.

FIG. 5 represents the nucleotide sequence of the PKD2 gene and the deduced amino acid sequence for PKD2.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides a purified and isolated wild type PKD2 nucleic acid, as well as mutated forms of this nucleic acid. As used herein, the "wild type PKD2 nucleic acid" is the normal form of the gene which expresses an enzymatically active gene product, and includes degenerate forms. The "mutated PKD2 nucleic acid" is the mutated form of the normal PKD2 gene, which contains one or more deletion, insertion, point or rearrangement mutations, or a combination thereof, that may render the gene product expressed by the mutated PKD2 gene nonfunctional or nonexistent. As used herein, "nucleic acid" may be genomic DNA, cDNA or RNA.

The present invention also provides single-stranded nucleic acid probes and mixtures thereof for use in diagnosing ADPKD caused by a mutated PKD2 gene. The nucleic acid probes may be DNA, cDNA, or RNA, and may be prepared from the mutated and/or wild type PKD2 gene. The probes may be the full length sequence of PKD2 gene, or fragments thereof. Typical probes are 12 to 40 nucleotides in length. Generally, the probes are complementary to the PKD2 gene coding sequences, although probes to introns are also contemplated. The probes may be synthesized using an oligonucleotide synthesizer such as Applied Biosystems Model 392 DNA/RNA synthesizer, and may be labeled with a detectable marker such as a fluorescence, enzyme or radiolabeled markers including ³² P and biotin, and the like. Combinations of two or more labelled probes corresponding to different regions of the PKD2 gene also may be included in kits to allow for the detection and/or analysis of the PKD2 gene by hybridization.

The present invention also provides a vector comprising nucleic acid encoding an active PKD2 protein, as well as a cell stably transformed with the vector. The vector may be any plasmid, viral-derived nucleic acid, lytic bacteriophage derived from phage lambda, cosmid, filamentous single-stranded bacteriophage such as M13, and the like, for cloning nucleic acid or introducing the nucleic acid into a cell for expression. The cell may be eukaryotic or prokaryotic. Suitable host cells include but are not limited to bacterial cells such as E. coli, Bacillus subtilis, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Bacillus subtilis, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Bacillus megaterium, eukaryotic cells such as Pichia pastoris, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Cryptococcus neoformans, Neurospora crassa, Podospora anserina, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces pombe, Uncinula necator, cultured insect cells, cultured chicken fibroblasts, cultured hamster cells, cultured human cells such as HT1080, MCF7, 143B and cultured mouse cells such as EL4 and NIH3T3 cells. Such expression systems may be used to produce a recombinant, active PKD2 protein by culturing a cell transformed with a vector comprising a nucleic acid encoding an active PKD2 protein, and recovering PKD2 protein from the culture.

The present invention also provides a purified active PKD2 protein. The protein may be the wild type protein or an analogue thereof. As used herein, "analogue" means functional variants of the wild type protein, and includes PKD2 proteins isolated from mammalian sources other than human, as well as functional variants thereof. The protein also may be isolated from native cells or recombinantly produced.

The present invention also provides antibodies immunoreactive with the protein expressed by the wild type PKD2 gene (and analogues thereof), as well as antibodies immunoreactive with the protein expressed by the mutated PKD2 gene. The antibodies may be polyclonal or monoclonal and are produced by standard techniques. The antibodies may be labeled with standard detectable markers (e.g. chemiluminescent detection systems and radioactive labels such as ¹²⁵ I) for detecting the wild type and mutated PKD2 genes. The antibodies also may be presented in kits with detectable labels and other reagents and buffers for such detection.

The present invention also provides a method for diagnosing ADPKD in a subject comprising detecting the presence of a mutated PKD2 gene in nucleic acid of the subject. The method may be used to determine whether persons in the population at large have ADPKD, for identifying persons at risk in developing the disease, i.e. relatives of persons with ADPKD, as well as for confirming diagnosis of ADPKD. The method also is useful for diagnosing ADPKD before clinical manifestations of the disease, i.e. the formation of cysts. Accordingly, as used herein, "subject" may be an embryo, fetus, newborn, infant or adult.

The presence of the mutated PKD2 gene may be detected by procedures known in the art including but not limited to standard sequencing techniques (e.g. dideoxy chain termination), restriction enzyme digestion analysis, hybridization with one or more probes hybridizable to the mutated and/or wild type PKD2 gene using standard procedures such as Southern blot analysis, polymerase chain reaction using sense and antisense primers prepared from the mutated and/or wild type PKD2 genes, and combinations thereof.

The presence of the mutated PKD2 gene also may be detected by detecting expression of the gene product of the gene. Such expression products include both MRNA as well as the protein product itself. mRNA expression may be detected by standard sequencing techniques, hybridization with one or more probes hybridizable to the mutated and/or wild type PKD2 mRNA using standard procedures such as Northern blot analysis, dot and slot hybridization, S1 nuclease assay, or ribonuclease protection assays, polymerase chain reaction using sense and antisense primers prepared from the mutated and/or wild type PKD2 genes, and combinations thereof. The protein may be detected using antibodies to the protein expressed by the mutated PKD2 gene and/or the wild type PKD2 gene by procedures known in the art including but not limited to immunoblotting, immunoprecipitation, solid phase radioimmunoassay (e.g. competition RIAs, immobilized antigen or antibody RIAs, or double antibody RIAs), enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay, and the like.

The present invention also provides a method for treating ADPKD caused by a mutated PKD2 gene in a subject in need of such treatment comprising the delivery and expression of a functional PKD2 gene into a sufficient number of cells of the subject, preferably bone marrow stem cells, to treat ADPKD in the subject. As used herein, "functional PKD2 gene" is a gene which when incorporated into a cell's nucleic acid expresses a functional gene product, and includes the wild type PKD2 gene as well as variations thereof. The delivery and expression of the functional PKD2 gene may be accomplished by introducing the functional PKD2 gene into the cells or by correcting the mutation(s) in the subject's PKD2 gene.

The functional PKD2 gene may be delivered into the subject's cells by a number of procedures known to one skilled in the art, e.g. electroporation, DEAE dextran, cationic liposome fusion (using both monocationic and polycationic lipids), protoplast fusion, DNA coated microprojectile bombardment, injection with recombinant replication-defective retroviruses, homologous recombination, and the like. Accordingly, a stem cell which expresses the PKD2 gene introduced therein through viral transduction, homologous recombination, or transfection is also provided by the present invention.

The present invention also provides a recombinant viral vector for treating a defect in the PKD2 gene in a target cell comprising (a) the nucleic acid of or corresponding to at least a portion of the genome of a virus, which portion is capable of directing the infection of the target cell, and (b) a functional PKD2 gene operably linked to the viral nucleic acid and capable of being expressed as a functional gene product in the target cell. The recombinant viral vectors of the present invention may be derived from a variety of viral nucleic acids known to one skilled in the art, e.g. the genomes of HSV, adenovirus, adeno-associated virus, Semiliki Forest virus, vaccinia virus, and other retroviruses or DNA viruses.

The present invention also provides a vector for use in preparing a non-human, transgenic animal comprising a mutated PKD2 gene which is capable of introducing the mutated PKD2 gene in at least some embryonic cells to which the vector is introduced, an embryonic stem cell comprising a mutated PKD2 gene which has been integrated into the cell following transduction with the vector above, as well as a non-human transgenic animal of ADPKD which would be useful for studying ADPKD. The mutated PKD2 gene may be integrated into the germ line of a non-human animal such as a mouse, rat, goat, sheep or other non-human species in order to obtain a transgenic animal model by methods known in the art (see Alberts, B., et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2d. Garland Publ. Inc., New York and London, pp. 267-269 (1989)). For example, nucleic acid encoding the mutated PKD2 protein can be inserted into the genome of a replication-defective virus such as HSV or a retrovirus or transposen and the resultant construct injected into embyronic stem cells. Alternatively, the transgenic animal may be made by injecting nucleic acid into the male pronucleus of a fertilized egg of a nonhuman animal, transplanting the "transgenic embryo" into a pseudopregnant female and then analyzing offspring for the presence of the injected nucleic acid in their genome.

The present invention is described in the following Experimental Details Section, which is set forth to aid in an understanding of the invention, and should not be construed to limit in any way the invention as defined in the claims which follow thereafter.

Experimental Details Section

A. Materials and Methods

Cosmid and P1 Contig Construction. Cosmid and P1 contig construction was guided by the existing YAC contig (Mochizuki, T., et al., unpublished observations; Veldhuisen, B., et al., unpublished observations). Cosmid clones were obtained by hybridization screening of the human chromosome 4-specific cosmid library (Riess, O., et al. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 65:238 (1994); Ioannou, P. A., et al. Nature Genetics 6:84 (1994)). The probes used for hybridization were: 1) pooled Alu products from mega-YAC 967d1, 2) end sequences from cosmid or P1 clones mapping into the region, and 3) internal restriction fragments from the YAC, P1 and cosmid clones. All hybridization probes were α³² P-dCTP labeled by standard techniques. Human repetitive sequences were pre-competed with 30-80 μg of C_(o) t-1 DNA using the manufacturer's portocol (Gibco/BRL, Gaithsburg, Md.). Hybridization was carried out in Church-Gilbert buffer. The P1 library (Riess, O., et al., supra; Ioannou, P. A., et al., supra) was screened by PCR from colony pools of each 384-well plate using STS4-1078 (SPP1) and D4S1171. Cosmid and P1 clones mapping into the PKD2 interval were screened for STS content to anchor positive clones onto the YAC contig. Overlap relationships among the clones were established by Eco RI fingerprint analysis and by hybridization.

Screening of cDNA Clones. 6×10⁵ plaques of oligo-dT and random primed human fetal brain (Stratagene #936206) and adult kidney (Clonetech #HL3001a) cDNA libraries were plated at a density of 3×10⁴ per 150 mm plate and replica lifted onto nylon filter circles. Cosmid and P1 inserts used in library screening were released from vector with Not I and purified from agarose gels. The cumulative length of inserts used as probe in a library screening was <80 kb to maintain adequate signal-to-noise. Insert DNA was labeled and pre-competed with 2 μg sCOS-1 vector in addition to C_(o) t-1 DNA. Positively hybridizing plaques were purified by standard techniques and insert DNA was excised (λZAPII) or subcloned (λgt10).

Identification of Mutations. The mutation in family 1605 was detected initially in RT-PCR template using the cDNA-based primers F11 (SEQ ID NO: 8) (5'-GGGCTACCATAAAGCTTTG-3') and R11 (SEQ ID NO: 9) (5'-GTTCATGTTCGATCAGTTCT-3') (205 bp product) and confirmed in genomic DNA using F11 (SEQ ID NO: 10) with intronic primer IR11 (5'-GGGCTAGAAATACTCTTATCACC-3') (201 bp product). The mutations in families 97 and 1601 were initially detected in genomic DNA using intronic primers IF1C (SEQ ID NO: 11) (5'-GCCTCAAGTGTTCCACTGAT-3') and IR1 (SEQ ID NO: 12) (5'-AGGTTTTTCTGGGTAACCCTAG-3') (362 bp product). Amplifications were performed in standard conditions with hot start. Products were labeled by α³² P-dCTP incorporation, diluted and denatured in formamide buffer prior to electrophoresis. SSCA was performed according to published protocols (Orita, M., et al. Genomics 5:874 (1989)). Sequencing of purified PCR products was performed with either an ABI 373a or 377 automated sequencing apparatus using cycle sequencing with dye terminator chemistries according to the manufacturer's protocol. The PCR primers were used as sequencing primers and all products were sequenced in both directions. The mutation in family 97 results in the loss of a Bsr I site. Genomic DNA amplified with IF1C and IR1 and digested with Bsr I yields products of 261 and 101 bp in the normal allele. The mutation in family 1605 results in the loss of a Taq I site. Genomic DNA amplified with F11 and IR11 and digested with Taq I yields products of 105 and 96 bp in the normal allele. The SSCA conditions used to demonstrate the mutation in the IF1C-IR1 genomic PCR product in family 1601 were 6% acrylamide (29:1), 1× TBE, on a 20 cm gel run at 14° C. and 100 V for 6 hours.

B. Discussion

The PKD2 genetic interval is flanked by the polymorphic markers D4S231 and D4S414/423 (Kimberling, W. J., et al. Genomics 18:467 (1993); Peters, D. J. M., et al. Nature Genetics 5:359 (1993)). A yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) contig and high density sequence tag site (STS) map of this region was constructed as described above (FIG. 1). Genetic studies in affected families using physically ordered polymorphic markers led to several progressive refinements of the PKD2 interval (Mochizuki, T., et al. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 5:631a (1994); San Millan, J. L., et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 56:248 (1995); Peters, D. J. M., et al. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 57:200a (1995); Constantinou-Deltas, C. D., et al. Hum. Genet. 95:416 (1995)). The closest unambiguous flanking genetic markers are AFMa059xc9 proximally and AICA1 distally (FIGS. 1A, B). A cosmid- and P1-based (Riess, O., et al. supra; Ioannou, P. A., et al., supra) contig extending over ˜680 kb from AICA1 to the region centromeric to the polymorphic marker JSTG3 was constructed as described above (FIG. 1C). This contig contains a single gap of less than 40 kb. cDNAs corresponding to genes in this region were isolated using inserts from the genomic clones to screen either a human fetal brain or adult kidney cDNA library as described above. The mapping of the CDNA clones identified was confirmed and the clones were sequenced. These sequences were analyzed to identify open reading frames (ORF) and database searches using the BLAST algorithms (Altschul, S. F., et al. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403 (1990)) were performed.

One group of clones, collectively termed cTM-4, were initially isolated using insert DNA from cosmid c44a9 from the chromosome 4-specific cosmid library as described above (FIG. 1D). None of the cTM-4 clones have nucleotide level homology to any known genes, although 2 randomly-sequenced cDNA clones were identified (FIG. 1E). Northern blot hybridization with the cTM-4B3-3 insert (FIG. 1E) revealed a ˜5.4 kb transcript expressed in most fetal and adult tissues (FIG. 2). cTM-4 is strongly expressed in ovary, fetal and adult kidney, testis, small and large intestine, and fetal lung. Peripheral blood leukocytes was the only tissue tested in which expression was not detected.

Initial database searching using the 6 translated reading frames obtained from the sequence of clone cTM-4B3-3 revealed amino acid level homology with polycystin, the PKD1 gene product (The European Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, Cell, 77:881 (1994); The International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, Cell 81:289 (1995); The American PKD1 Consortium, Hum. Mol. Genet. 4:575 (1995); Hughes, J., et al. Nature Genetics 10:151 (1995)). Based on its map location, pattern of expression and the observed homology, the cTM-4 gene was further investigated as a candidate for PKD2. Nine overlapping cDNA clones were completely sequenced in both directions (FIG. 1E). The 5' end of the cTM-4 gene contains a pair of genomic Not I sites and the 3' end extends in the telomeric direction beyond the end of the P1 clone p157n2, into cosmid c44a9 (FIGS. 1C, 1D). The gene extends over 68 kb of the genome.

The consensus 5057 bp sequence (GenBank accession: gblU50928) is represented schematically in FIG. 1E. A translation start site with a good Kozak consensus sequence (5'-ACCGCGATGG-3') (Kozak, M. Nucleic Acids Res. 15:8125 (1987)) was identified 67 bp from the 5' end of the K1-1 clone and 61 bases after an in-frame stop codon. It is followed by a 2904 bp ORF followed, in turn, by several in-frame stop codons. The 3' untranslated region is 2086 bp long and contains a consensus polyadenylation signal.

The DNA sequence and expression profiles of cTM-4 was next analyzed in unrelated affected individuals from families with PKD2 (Kimberling, W. J., et al. N. Eng. J. Med. 319:913 (1988); Kimberling, W. J., et al. Genomics 18:467 (1993); Peters, D. J. M., et al. Nature Genetics 5:359 (1993); Constantinou-Deltas, C. D., et al. Hum. Genet. 95:416 (1995)). Reverse transcribed RNA and genomic DNA templates were used to generate PCR products for single strand conformational analysis (SSCA) as described above. Genomic PCR products of SSCA variants identified in three families were subjected to direct sequencing. Each affected individual was found to be heterozygous for a single base change that resulted in a nonsense mutation (FIG. 3). The mutation in family 97 is a G to A transition in the codon for Trp 380 (FIGS. 3, 4). The mutations in the Cypriot families 1605 and 1601 are C to T transitions in codons Arg 742 and Gln 405, respectively (FIGS. 3, 4). Using either the resultant loss of a restriction site in families 97 and 1605, or the SSCA pattern in family 1601, segregation of the mutation with the disease phenotype in each family was demonstrated (FIG. 3). Analysis of between 90 and 100 normal chromosomes failed to show the predicted affected allele in any case, making it less likely that these sequence differences represent anonymous polymorphisms. These limited findings do not provide evidence for clustering of mutations in PKD2.

The identification of mutations that disrupt the predicted translation product of cTM-4 and the segregation of these mutations with the ADPKD phenotype in three well characterized PKD2 pedigrees, provide strong evidence that cTM-4 is the PKD2 gene. The putative translation product of the cTM-4 ORF is a 968 amino acid sequence with a calculated molecular mass of 110 kD. Modeling with several hydrophobicity algorithms (Rost, B., et al. Protein Sci. 4:521 (1995); Klein, P., et al. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 815:468 (1985); Kyte, J. and R. F. Doolittle J. Mol. Biol. 157:105 (1982); Engelman, D. M., et al. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Chem. 15:321 (1986)) suggest that cTM-4 is an integral membrane protein with six (range, 5 to 8) membrane spanning domains and intracellular NH₂ - and COOH-termini (Sipos, L. and G. von Heijne Eur. J. Biochem. 213:1333 (1993); Nakashima, H. and K. Nishikawa FEBS Lett. 303:141 (1992); Hartmann, E., et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:5786 (1989)). Of the six highest scoring domains, the fourth transmembrane domain (tm4, FIG. 4), produced the lowest scores, but was consistently predicted to be a membrane span by several analyses (Rost, B., et al., supra; Klein, P., et al., supra; Kyte, J. and R. F. Doolittle, supra; Engelman, D. M., et al., supra). The "inside positive" rule (Sipos, L. and G. von Heijne, supra; Nakashima, H. and K. Nishikawa, supra; Hartmann, E., et al., supra) strongly supports the predicted topology. The majority of the N-glycosylation sites, occurring in the segment between tm1 and tm2 (FIG. 4), are predicted to be extracellular. In addition, potential phosphorylation sites were identified primarily in the COOH-terminal region, as was a putative EF-hand domain (Kretsinger, R. H. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. on Quant. Biol. 52:499 (1987); Babitch, J. Nature 346:321 (1990)), and this region is predicted to be intracellular (FIG. 4). If a stable protein product is produced, the mutations in families 97 and 1601 are expected to result in a product with an intact intracellular NH₂ -terminal domain, first transmembrane domain, and part of the first extracellular loop. The mutation in family 1605 is predicted to result in a product lacking the portion of the intracellular COOH-terminus that contains several phosphorylation sites and the EF-hand domain (FIG. 4).

There is ˜25% identity and ˜50% similarity between the putative translation product of PKD2 and ˜450 amino acids of polycystin and its C. elegans homolog, ZK945.9 (FIG. 4). There is a comparable degree of similarity with ˜270 residues of the voltage activated Ca²⁺ channel α_(1E) (VACCα1E-1; FIG. 4). The similarity between PKD2 and polycystin (and ZK945.9) extends over the region tm1 to tm6 in PKD2 but does not include the NH₂ - and COOH-terminal domains. The corresponding region of polycystin has been predicted to contain four transmembrane segments (Hughes, J., et al. Nature Genetics 10:151 (1995)), three of these corresponding to tm1, tm2 and tm5 in the PKD2 gene product and the fourth localizing between tm5 and tm6 of PKD2. The regions corresponding to tm3 and tm4 of PKD2 were not predicted to be membrane spans in that report (Hughes, et al., supra).

The similarity to VACCα1E-1 (Williams, M. E., et al. J. Biol. Chem. 269:22347 (1994); Williams, M. E., et al. Science 257:389 (1992); Soong, T. W., et al. Science 260:1133 (1993); Horne, W. A., et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:3787 (1993)) is presented as the strongest example of a general homology of PKD2 to the family of voltage activated Ca²⁺ and Na⁺ α1 channel proteins. These channel proteins contain four homologous domains (I-IV), each with six transmembrane spans (S1-S6), which are predicted to form the pore structure (Williams, M. E., et al. (1994), supra; Williams, M. E., et al. (1992), supra; Soong, T. W., et al., supra; Horne, W. A., et al., supra; Hille, B., Ionic channels of excitable membranes (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass., ed. 2, 1992), pp.250-7)). The membrane spans tm2 through tm6 as well as the intervening intracellular loops of PKD2 have similarity with corresponding segments in the α1 channels (FIG. 4). The similarity in the COOH-terminal region includes the putative EF-hand domain (FIG. 4) (Kretsinger, R. H., et al., supra; Babitch, J., supra). This domain in PKD2 scores highly on the EF-hand test (FIG. 4B) with identity at all the critical coordination vertices (Kretsinger, R. H., et al., supra; Babitch, J., supra). EF-hand domains are specialized helix-loop-helix motifs that have Ca²⁺ binding activity in ˜70% of proteins in which they occur (Nakayama, S. and R. H. Kretsinger Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 23:473 (1994)). Unpaired EF-hand sequences have recently been implicated in Ca²⁺ -sensitive inactivation of some forms of L-type VACCα1 (de Leon, M., et al. Science 270:1502 (1995)). EF-hand domains that do not coordinate Ca²⁺ remain important to protein function (Kretsinger, R. H., et al., supra; Babitch, J., supra; Gulati, A., et al. J. Biol. Chem. 267:25073 (1992)).

Despite the observed homology to PKD1, the predicted structure of the PKD2 protein does not directly suggest a role in cell--cell or matrix-cell signaling similar to that proposed for polycystin (The European Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, supra; The International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, supra; The American PKD1 Consortium, supra; Hughes, J., supra). PKD2 does not have the large NH₂ -terminal extracellular domain and the associated motifs found in polycystin (The European Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, supra; The International Polycystic Kidney Disease Consortium, supra; The American PKD1 Consortium, supra; Hughes, J., supra). It is possible that PKD2 functions in a parallel pathway with PKD1. However, given that the clinical diseases produced by mutations in PKD1 and PKD2 exhibit an identical spectrum of organ involvement, differing only in relative rates of progression of cystic changes, hypertension and the development of ESRD, the most likely scenario is that PKD2 associates with itself, with polycystin, and/or with other proteins and ligands as part of a common signal transduction pathway.

PKD2 bears some similarity to the α1 Ca²⁺ (and Na⁺) channels but has only six membrane spans. If it formed homo- or hetero-multimeric complexes (for example, with itself, with the homologous portion of PKD1 or with another protein), it could function as an ion channel or pore in a manner similar to the K⁺ channels (Hille, B., supra). The observed homologies, the presence of a pair of conserved basic residues (Lys 573, Lys 576) in the fourth transmembrane domain, and the predicted even number of membrane spans, are consistent with such a role (Hille, B., supra). In such a model, PKD1 could act as the regulator of the PKD2 channel activity, perhaps with Ca²⁺ as a second messenger in a signal transduction pathway. The discovery of PKD2 raises the possibility that the ADPKD phenotype may in part be the result of a defect in an unknown transport function.

All publications mentioned hereinabove are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.

While the foregoing invention has been described in detail for purposes of clarity and understanding, it will be appreciated by one skilled in the art from a reading of the disclosure that various changes in form and detail can be made without departing from the true scope of the invention in the appended claims.

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- Pro Gly Ser Arg Arg Ser Ala Ala Ser Ser                                                   125  - #               130                                      - - Ala Val Ser Ser Val Gly Ala Arg Ser Arg                                                   135  - #               140                                      - - Gly Leu Gly Gly Tyr His Gly Ala Gly His                                                   145  - #               150                                      - - Pro Ser Gly Arg Arg Arg Arg Arg Glu Asp                                                   155  - #               160                                      - - Gln Gly Pro Pro Cys Pro Ser Pro Val Gly                                                   165  - #               170                                      - - Gly Gly Asp Pro Leu His Arg His Leu Pro                                                   175  - #               180                                      - - Leu Glu Gly Gln Pro Pro Arg Val Ala Trp                                                   185  - 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#               320                                      - - Asn Ile Asn Leu Phe Cys Val Val Arg Leu                                                   325  - #               330                                      - - Leu Val Glu Phe Pro Ala Thr Gly Gly Val                                                   335  - #               340                                      - - Ile Pro Ser Trp Gln Phe Gln Pro Leu Lys                                                   345  - #               350                                      - - Leu Ile Arg Tyr Val Thr Thr Phe Asp Phe                                                   355  - #               360                                      - - Phe Leu Ala Ala Cys Glu Ile Ile Phe Cys                                                   365  - #               370                                      - - Phe Phe Ile Phe Tyr Tyr Val Val Glu Glu                                                   375  - #               380                                      - 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#               450                                      - - Phe Asn Asn Ile Ala Ala Val Thr Val Phe                                                   455  - #               460                                      - - Phe Val Trp Ile Lys Leu Phe Lys Phe Ile                                                   465  - #               470                                      - - Asn Phe Asn Arg Thr Met Ser Gln Leu Ser                                                   475  - #               480                                      - - Thr Thr Met Ser Arg Cys Ala Lys Asp Leu                                                   485  - #               490                                      - - Phe Gly Phe Ala Ile Met Phe Phe Ile Ile                                                   495  - #               500                                      - - Phe Leu Ala Tyr Ala Gln Leu Ala Tyr Leu                                                   505  - #               510                                      - - Val Phe Gly Thr Gln Val Asp Asp Phe Ser                                                   515  - #               520                                      - - Thr Phe Gln Glu Cys Ile Phe Thr Gln Phe                                                   525  - #               530                                      - - Arg Ile Ile Leu Gly Asp Ile Asn Phe Ala                                                   535  - #               540                                      - - Glu Ile Glu Glu Ala Asn Xaa Arg Val Leu                                                   545  - #               550                                      - - Gly Pro Ile Tyr Phe Thr Thr Phe Val Phe                                                   555  - #               560                                      - - Phe Met Phe Phe Ile Leu Leu Asn Met Phe                                                   565  - #               570                                      - - Leu Ala Ile Ile Asn Asp Thr Tyr Ser Glu                                                   575  - #               580                                      - - Val Lys Ser Asp Leu Xaa Xaa Xaa Ala Gln                                                   585  - #               590                                      - - Gln Lys Ala Glu Met Glu Leu Ser Asp Leu                                                   595  - #               600                                      - - Ile Arg Lys Gly Tyr His Lys Ala Leu Val                                                   605  - #               610                                      - - Lys Leu Lys Leu Lys Lys Asn Thr Val Asp                                                   615  - #               620                                      - - Asp Ile Ser Glu Ser Leu Arg Gln Gly Gly                                                   625  - #               630                                      - - Gly Lys Leu Asn Phe Asp Glu Leu Arg Gln                                                   635  - #               640                                      - 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#               710                                      - - Glu Asp Asp Asp Glu Asp Ser Gly His Ser                                                   715  - #               720                                      - - Ser Arg Arg Arg Gly Ser Ile Ser Ser Gly                                                   725  - #               730                                      - - Val Ser Tyr Glu Glu Phe Gln Val Leu Val                                                   735  - #               740                                      - - Arg Arg Val Asp Arg Met Glu His Ser Ile                                                   745  - #               750                                      - - Gly Ser Ile Val Ser Lys Ile Asp Ala Val                                                   755  - #               760                                      - - Ile Val Lys Leu Glu Ile Met Glu Arg Ala                                                   765  - #               770                                      - 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#               840                                      - - Ser Arg Pro Ser Ser Ser Gln Ser Xaa Thr                                                   845  - #               850                                      - - Glu Gly Met Glu Gly Ala Gly Gly Asn Gly                                                   855  - #               860                                      - - Ser Ser Asn Val His Val                                                                   865                                                             - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:2:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 523 amino - #acids                                                 (B) TYPE:  amino aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION:  pepti - #de                                         - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -      (v) FRAGMENT TYPE: internal fragment                                  - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 2:                          - - Phe Leu Ala Lys Glu Glu Ala Arg Lys Val                                   1               5   - #                10                                       - - Lys Arg Leu His Gly Met Leu Arg Ser Leu                                                   15  - #                20                                       - - Leu Val Tyr Met Leu Phe Leu Leu Val Thr                                                   25  - #                30                                       - - Leu Leu Ala Ser Tyr Gly Asp Ala Ser Cys                                                   35  - #                40                                       - - His Gly His Ala Tyr Xaa Arg Leu Gln Ser                                                   45  - #                50                                       - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Ala Ile Lys Gln Glu                                                   55  - #                60                                       - - Leu His Ser Arg Ala Phe Leu Ala Ile Thr                                                   65  - #                70                                       - - Arg Ser Glu Glu Leu Trp Pro Trp Met Ala                                                   75  - #                80                                       - - His Val Leu Leu Pro Tyr Val His Xaa Xaa                                                   85  - #                90                                       - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Gly Asn Gln Ser Ser Pro Glu                                                   95  - #                100                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   105  - #               110                                      - - Xaa Leu Gly Pro Pro Arg Leu Arg Gln Val                                                   115  - #               120                                      - - Arg Leu Gln Glu Ala Leu Tyr Pro Asp Pro                                                   125  - #               130                                      - - Pro Gly Pro Arg Val His Thr Cys Ser Ala                                                   135  - #               140                                      - - Ala Gly Gly Phe Ser Thr Ser Asp Tyr Asp                                                   145  - #               150                                      - - Val Gly Trp Glu Ser Pro His Asn Gly Ser                                                   155  - #               160                                      - - Gly Thr Trp Ala Thr Xaa Xaa Ser Ala Pro                                                   165  - #               170                                      - - Asp Leu Leu Gly Ala Trp Ser Trp Gly Ser                                                   175  - #               180                                      - - Cys Ala Val Tyr Asp Ser Gly Gly Tyr Val                                                   185  - #               190                                      - - Gln Glu Leu Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Glu Ser                                                   195  - #               200                                      - - Arg Asp Arg Leu Arg Phe Leu Gln Leu His                                                   205  - #               210                                      - - Asn Trp Leu Asp Asn Arg Ser Arg Ala Val                                                   215  - #               220                                      - - Phe Leu Glu Leu Thr Arg Tyr Ser Pro Ala                                                   225  - #               230                                      - - Val Gly Leu His Ala Ala Val Thr Leu Arg                                                   235  - #               240                                      - - Leu Glu Phe Pro Ala Ala Gly Arg Ala Leu                                                   245  - #               250                                      - - Ala Ala Leu Ser Val Arg Pro Phe Ala Leu                                                   255  - #               260                                      - - Arg Arg Leu Ser Ala Gly Leu Ser Leu Pro                                                   265  - #               270                                      - - Leu Leu Thr Ser Val Cys Leu Leu Leu Phe                                                   275  - #               280                                      - - Ala Val His Phe Ala Val Ala Glu Ala Arg                                                   285  - #               290                                      - - Thr Trp Xaa His Arg Glu Gly Arg Trp Arg                                                   295  - #               300                                      - - Val Leu Arg Leu Gly Ala Trp Ala Arg Trp                                                   305  - #               310                                      - - Leu Leu Val Ala Leu Thr Ala Ala Thr Ala                                                   315  - #               320                                      - - Leu Val Arg Leu Ala Gln Leu Gly Ala Ala                                                   325  - #               330                                      - - Asp Arg Gln Xaa Xaa Trp Thr Arg Phe Val                                                   335  - #               340                                      - - Arg Gly Arg Pro Arg Arg Phe Thr Ser Phe                                                   345  - #               350                                      - - Asp Gln Val Ala Gln Leu Ser Ser Ala Ala                                                   355  - #               360                                      - - Arg Gly Leu Ala Ala Ser Leu Leu Phe Leu                                                   365  - #               370                                      - - Leu Leu Val Lys Ala Ala Gln Gln Leu Arg                                                   375  - #               380                                      - - Phe Val Arg Gln Trp Ser Val Phe Gly Lys                                                   385  - #               390                                      - - Thr Leu Cys Arg Ala Leu Pro Glu Leu Leu                                                   395  - #               400                                      - - Gly Val Thr Leu Gly Leu Val Val Leu Gly                                                   405  - #               410                                      - - Val Ala Tyr Ala Gln Leu Ala Ile Leu Leu                                                   415  - #               420                                      - - Val Ser Ser Cys Val Asp Ser Leu Trp Ser                                                   425  - #               430                                      - - Val Ala Gln Ala Leu Leu Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   435  - #               440                                      - - Val Leu Cys Pro Gly Thr Gly Leu Ser Thr                                                   445  - #               450                                      - - Leu Cys Pro Ala Glu Ser Trp His Leu Ser                                                   455  - #               460                                      - - Pro Leu Leu Cys Val Gly Leu Trp Ala Leu                                                   465  - #               470                                      - - Arg Leu Trp Gly Ala Leu Arg Leu Gly Ala                                                   475  - #               480                                      - - Val Ile Leu Arg Trp Arg Tyr His Ala Leu                                                   485  - #               490                                      - - Arg Gly Glu Leu Tyr Arg Pro Ala Trp Glu                                                   495  - #               500                                      - - Pro Gln Asp Tyr Glu Met Val Glu Leu Phe                                                   505  - #               510                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Leu Arg Arg                                                   515  - #               520                                      - - Leu Arg Leu                                                                - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:3:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 399 amino - #acids                                                 (B) TYPE:  amino aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION:  pepti - #de                                         - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -      (v) FRAGMENT TYPE: internal fragment                                  - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 3:                          - - Glu Asn Arg Lys Met Arg Asp Glu Gln Leu                                   1               5   - #                10                                       - - Phe Ile Thr Ile Arg Asp Met Leu Cys Phe                                                   15  - #                20                                       - - Phe Ala Ser Leu Tyr Ile Met Val Met Leu                                                   25  - #                30                                       - - Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Lys Asp Arg His Gly Tyr                                                   35  - #                40                                       - - Trp Tyr Gln Leu Glu Met Ser Thr Ile Leu                                                   45  - #                50                                       - - Asn Ile Asn Gln Lys Asn Tyr Gly Asp Asn                                                   55  - #                60                                       - - Thr Xaa Phe Met Ser Ile Gln His Ala Asp                                                   65  - #                70                                       - - Asp Phe Trp Asp Trp Ala Arg Glu Ser Leu                                                   75  - #                80                                       - - Ala Thr Ala Leu Leu Ala Ser Trp Tyr Asp                                                   85  - #                90                                       - - Gly Asn Pro Ala Tyr Gly Met Arg Ala Tyr                                                   95  - #                100                                      - - Met Asn Asp Lys Val Ser Arg Ser Met Gly                                                   105  - #               110                                      - - Ile Gly Thr Ile Arg Gln Val Arg Thr Lys                                                   115  - #               120                                      - - Lys Ser Glu Ile Ile Thr Leu Phe Asn Lys                                                   125  - #               130                                      - - Leu Asp Ser Glu Arg Trp Ile Asp Asp His                                                   135  - #               140                                      - - Thr Arg Ala Val Ile Ile Glu Phe Ser Ala                                                   145  - #               150                                      - - Tyr Asn Ala Gln Ile Asn Tyr Phe Ser Val                                                   155  - #               160                                      - - Val Gln Leu Leu Val Glu Ile Pro Lys Ser                                                   165  - #               170                                      - - Gly Ile Tyr Leu Pro Asn Ser Trp Val Glu                                                   175  - #               180                                      - - Ser Val Arg Leu Ile Lys Ser Glu Gly Ser                                                   185  - #               190                                      - - Asp Gly Thr Val Val Lys Tyr Tyr Glu Met                                                   195  - #               200                                      - - Leu Tyr Ile Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Phe                                                   205  - #               210                                      - - Val Lys Glu Ile Val Trp Asn Phe Met Asp                                                   215  - #               220                                      - - Leu Ile Val Gly Ala Leu Ala Val Ala Ser                                                   225  - #               230                                      - - Val Leu Ala Tyr Thr Ile Arg Gln Arg Thr                                                   235  - #               240                                      - - Thr Asn Arg Ala Met Glu Asp Phe Asn Ala                                                   245  - #               250                                      - - Asn Asn Gly Asn Ser Tyr Ile Asn Leu Thr                                                   255  - #               260                                      - - Glu Gln Arg Asn Trp Glu Ile Val Phe Ser                                                   265  - #               270                                      - - Tyr Cys Leu Ala Gly Ala Val Phe Phe Thr                                                   275  - #               280                                      - - Ser Cys Lys Met Ile Arg Ile Leu Arg Phe                                                   285  - #               290                                      - - Asn Arg Arg Ile Gly Val Leu Ala Ala Thr                                                   295  - #               300                                      - - Leu Asp Asn Ala Leu Gly Ala Ile Val Ser                                                   305  - #               310                                      - - Phe Gly Ile Ala Phe Leu Phe Phe Ser Met                                                   315  - #               320                                      - - Thr Phe Asn Ser Val Leu Tyr Ala Val Leu                                                   325  - #               330                                      - - Gly Asn Lys Met Gly Gly Tyr Arg Ser Leu                                                   335  - #               340                                      - - Met Ala Thr Phe Gln Thr Ala Leu Ala Gly                                                   345  - #               350                                      - - Met Leu Gly Lys Leu Asp Val Thr Ser Ile                                                   355  - #               360                                      - - Gln Pro Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Ile Ser Gln                                                   365  - #               370                                      - - Phe Ala Phe Val Val Ile Met Leu Tyr Met                                                   375  - #               380                                      - - Ile Glu Phe Glu Glu Ile Arg Asn Asp Ser                                                   385  - #               390                                      - - Glu Lys Gln Thr Asn Asp Tyr Glu Ile                                                       395                                                             - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:4:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 363 amino - #acids                                                 (B) TYPE:  amino aci - #d                                                      (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION:  pepti - #de                                         - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -      (v) FRAGMENT TYPE: internal fragment                                  - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 4:                          - - Phe Thr Met Val Phe Ser Leu Glu Cys Val                                   1               5   - #                10                                       - - Leu Lys Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Phe Leu Asn                                                   15  - #                20                                       - - Tyr Phe Arg Xaa Asp Thr Trp Asn Ile Phe                                                   25  - #                30                                       - - Asp Phe Ile Thr Val Ile Gly Ser Ile Thr                                                   35  - #                40                                       - - Glu Ile Ile Leu Thr Asp Ser Lys Leu Val                                                   45  - #                50                                       - - Asn Thr Ser Gly Xaa Phe Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   55  - #                60                                       - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   65  - #                70                                       - - Xaa Asn Met Ser Phe Leu Lys Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   75  - #                80                                       - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Leu Phe                                                   85  - #                90                                       - - Arg Ala Ala Arg Leu Ile Lys Leu Leu Arg                                                   95  - #                100                                      - - Gln Gly Tyr Thr Ile Arg Ile Leu Leu Trp                                                   105  - #               110                                      - - Thr Phe Val Gln Ser Phe Lys Ala Leu Pro                                                   115  - #               120                                      - - Tyr Val Cys Leu Leu Ile Ala Met Leu Phe                                                   125  - #               130                                      - - Phe Ile Tyr Ala Ile Ile Gly Met Gln Val                                                   135  - #               140                                      - - Phe Gly Asn Asn Phe Arg Ser Phe Phe Gly                                                   145  - #               150                                      - - Ser Leu Met Leu Leu Phe Arg Ser Ala Thr                                                   155  - #               160                                      - - Gly Glu Xaa Ala Trp Gln Glu Ile Glu Arg                                                   165  - #               170                                      - - Cys Gly Xaa Thr Asp Leu Ala Tyr Val Tyr                                                   175  - #               180                                      - - Phe Val Ser Phe Ile Phe Phe Cys Ser Phe                                                   185  - #               190                                      - - Leu Met Leu Asn Leu Phe Val Ala Val Ile                                                   195  - #               200                                      - - Met Asp Asn Phe Glu Tyr Leu Thr Arg Asp                                                   205  - #               210                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   215  - #               220                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   225  - #               230                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   235  - #               240                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   245  - #               250                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa                                                   255  - #               260                                      - - Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Ile Leu Gly                                                   265  - #               270                                      - - Pro His His Leu Asp Xaa Glu Phe Val Arg                                                   275  - #               280                                      - - Val Trp Ala Glu Tyr Asp Arg Ala Ala Cys                                                   285  - #               290                                      - - Gly Arg Ile His Tyr Thr Glu Met Tyr Glu                                                   295  - #               300                                      - - Met Glu Arg Arg Arg Ser Lys Glu Arg Lys                                                   305  - #               310                                      - - His Leu Leu Ser Pro Asp Val Ser Arg Cys                                                   315  - #               320                                      - - Asn Ser Glu Glu Arg Gly Thr Gln Ala Asp                                                   325  - #               330                                      - - Trp Glu Ser Pro Glu Arg Arg Gln Ser Arg                                                   335  - #               340                                      - - Ser Pro Ser Glu Gly Arg Ser Gln Thr Pro                                                   345  - #               350                                      - - Asn Arg Gln Gly Thr Gly Ser Leu Ser Glu                                                   355  - #               360                                      - - Ser Ser Ile                                                                - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:5:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 28 amino - #acids                                                  (B) TYPE: amino acid                                                           (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: peptide                                              - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 5:                          - - Glu Ile Ala Ile Phe Thr Lys Tyr Asp Gln                                   1               5   - #                10                                       - - Asp Gly Asp Gln Glu Leu Thr Glu His Glu                                                   15  - #                20                                       - - His Gln Gln Met Arg Asp Asp Leu                                                           25                                                              - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:6:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 5057 nuclei - #c acids                                             (B) TYPE: nucleic acid                                                         (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: genomic - #DNA                                       - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 6:                          - - GGCTCCTGAG GCGCACAGCG CCGAGCGCGG CGCCGCGCAC CCGCGCGCCG  - #                   50                                                                          - - GACGCCAGTG ACCGCGATGG TGAACTCCAG TCGCGTGCAG CCTCAGCAGC  - #                  100                                                                          - - CCGGGGACGC CAAGCGGCCG CCCGCGCCCC GCGCGCCGGA CCCGGGCCGG  - #                  150                                                                          - - CTGATGGCTG GCTGCGCGGC CGTGGGCGCC AGCCTCGCCG CCCCGGGCGG  - #                  200                                                                          - - CCTCTGCGAG CAGCGGGGCC TGGAGATCGA GATGCAGCGC ATCCGGCAGG  - #                  250                                                                          - - CGGCCGCGCG GGACCCCCCG GCCGGAGCCG CGGCCTCCCC TTCTCCTCCG  - #                  300                                                                          - - CTCTCGTCGT GCTCCCGGCA GGCGTGGAGC CGCGATAACC CCGGCTTCGA  - #                  350                                                                          - - GGCCGAGGAG GAGGAGGAGG AGGTGGAAGG GGAAGAAGGC GGAATGGTGG  - #                  400                                                                          - - TGGAGATGGA CGTAGAGTGG CGCCCGGGCA GCCGGAGGTC GGCCGCCTCC  - #                  450                                                                          - - TCGGCCGTGA GCTCCGTGGG CGCGCGGAGC CGGGGGCTTG GGGGCTACCA  - #                  500                                                                          - - CGGCGCGGGC CACCCGAGCG GGAGGCGGCG CCGGCGAGAG GACCAGGGCC  - #                  550                                                                          - - CGCCGTGCCC CAGCCCAGTC GGCGGCGGGG ACCCGCTGCA TCGCCACCTC  - #                  600                                                                          - - CCCCTGGAAG GGCAGCCGCC CCGAGTGGCC TGGGCGGAGA GGCTGGTTCG  - #                  650                                                                          - - CGGGCTGCGA GGTCTCTGGG GAACAAGACT CATGGAGGAA AGCAGCACTA  - #                  700                                                                          - - ACCGAGAGAA ATACCTTAAA AGTGTTTTAC GGGAACTGGT CACATACCTC  - #                  750                                                                          - - CTTTTTCTCA TAGTCTTGTG CATCTTGACC TACGGCATGA TGAGCTCCAA  - #                  800                                                                          - - TGTGTACTAC TACACCCGGA TGATGTCACA GCTCTTCCTA GACACCCCCG  - #                  850                                                                          - - TGTCCAAAAC GGAGAAAACT AACTTTAAAA CTCTGTCTTC CATGGAAGAC  - #                  900                                                                          - - TTCTGGAAGT TCACAGAAGG CTCCTTATTG GATGGGCTGT ACTGGAAGAT  - #                  950                                                                          - - GCAGCCCAGC AACCAGACTG AAGCTGACAA CCGAAGTTTC ATCTTCTATG  - #                 1000                                                                          - - AGAACCTGCT GTTAGGGGTT CCACGAATAC GGCAACTCCG AGTCAGAAAT  - #                 1050                                                                          - - GGATCCTGCT CTATCCCCCA GGACTTGAGA GATGAAATTA AAGAGTGCTA  - #                 1100                                                                          - - TGATGTCTAC TCTGTCAGTA GTGAAGATAG GGCTCCCTTT GGGCCCCGAA  - #                 1150                                                                          - - ATGGAACCGC TTGGATCTAC ACAAGTGAAA AAGACTTGAA TGGTAGTAGC  - #                 1200                                                                          - - CACTGGGGAA TCATTGCAAC TTATAGTGGA GCTGGCTATT ATCTGGATTT  - #                 1250                                                                          - - GTCAAGAACA AGAGAGGAAA CAGCTGCACA AGTTGCTAGC CTCAAGAAAA  - #                 1300                                                                          - - ATGTCTGGCT GGACCGAGGA ACCAGGGCAA CTTTTATTGA CTTCTCAGTG  - #                 1350                                                                          - - TACAACGCCA ACATTAACCT GTTCTGTGTG GTCAGGTTAT TGGTTGAATT  - #                 1400                                                                          - - CCCAGCAACA GGTGGTGTGA TTCCATCTTG GCAATTTCAG CCTTTAAAGC  - #                 1450                                                                          - - TGATCCGATA TGTCACAACT TTTGATTTCT TCCTGGCAGC CTGTGAGATT  - #                 1500                                                                          - - ATCTTTTGTT TCTTTATCTT TTACTATGTG GTGGAAGAGA TATTGGAAAT  - #                 1550                                                                          - - TCGCATTCAC AAACTACACT ATTTCAGGAG TTTCTGGAAT TGTCTGGATG  - #                 1600                                                                          - - TTGTGATCGT TGTGCTGTCA GTGGTAGCTA TAGGAATTAA CATATACAGA  - #                 1650                                                                          - - ACATCAAATG TGGAGGTGCT ACTACAGTTT CTGGAAGATC AAAATACTTT  - #                 1700                                                                          - - CCCCAACTTT GAGCATCTGG CATATTGGCA GATACAGTTC AACAATATAG  - #                 1750                                                                          - - CTGCTGTCAC AGTATTTTTT GTCTGGATTA AGCTCTTCAA ATTCATCAAT  - #                 1800                                                                          - - TTTAACAGGA CCATGAGCCA GCTCTCGACA ACCATGTCTC GATGTGCCAA  - #                 1850                                                                          - - AGACCTGTTT GGCTTTGCTA TTATGTTCTT CATTATTTTC CTAGCGTATG  - #                 1900                                                                          - - CTCAGTTGGC ATACCTTGTC TTTGGCACTC AGGTCGATGA CTTCAGTACT  - #                 1950                                                                          - - TTCCAAGAGT GTATCTTCAC TCAATTCCGT ATCATTTTGG GCGATATCAA  - #                 2000                                                                          - - CTTTGCAGAG ATTGAGGAAG CTAATCGAGT TTTGGGACCA ATTTATTTCA  - #                 2050                                                                          - - CTACATTTGT GTTCTTTATG TTCTTCATTC TTTTGAATAT GTTTTTGGCT  - #                 2100                                                                          - - ATCATCAATG ATACTTACTC TGAAGTGAAA TCTGACTTGG CACAGCAGAA  - #                 2150                                                                          - - AGCTGAAATG GAACTCTCAG ATCTTATCAG AAAGGGCTAC CATAAAGCTT  - #                 2200                                                                          - - TGGTCAAACT AAAACTGAAA AAAAATACCG TGGATGACAT TTCAGAGAGT  - #                 2250                                                                          - - CTGCGGCAAG GAGGAGGCAA GTTAAACTTT GACGAACTTC GACAAGATCT  - #                 2300                                                                          - - CAAAGGGAAG GGCCATACTG ATGCAGAGAT TGAGGCAATA TTCACAAAGT  - #                 2350                                                                          - - ACGACCAAGA TGGAGACCAA GAACTGACCG AACATGAACA TCAGCAGATG  - #                 2400                                                                          - - AGAGACGACT TGGAGAAAGA GAGGGAGGAC CTGGATTTGG ATCACAGTTC  - #                 2450                                                                          - - TTTACCACGT CCCATGAGCA GCCGAAGTTT CCCTCGAAGC CTGGATGACT  - #                 2500                                                                          - - CTGAGGAGGA TGACGATGAA GATAGCGGAC ATAGCTCCAG AAGGAGGGGA  - #                 2550                                                                          - - AGCATTTCTA GTGGCGTTTC TTACGAAGAG TTTCAAGTCC TGGTGAGACG  - #                 2600                                                                          - - AGTGGACCGG ATGGAGCATT CCATCGGCAG CATAGTGTCC AAGATTGACG  - #                 2650                                                                          - - CCGTGATCGT GAAGCTAGAG ATTATGGAGC GAGCCAAACT GAAGAGGAGG  - #                 2700                                                                          - - GAGGTGCTGG GAAGGCTGTT GGATGGGGTG GCCGAGGATG AAAGGCTGGG  - #                 2750                                                                          - - TCGTGACAGT GAAATCCATA GGGAACAGAT GGAACGGCTA GTACGTGAAG  - #                 2800                                                                          - - AGTTGGAACG CTGGGAATCC GATGATGCAG CTTCCCAGAT CAGTCATGGT  - #                 2850                                                                          - - TTAGGCACGC CAGTGGGACT AAATGGTCAA CCTCGCCCCA GAAGCTCCCG  - #                 2900                                                                          - - CCCATCTTCC TCCCAATCTA CAGAAGGCAT GGAAGGTGCA GGTGGAAATG  - #                 2950                                                                          - - GGAGTTCTAA TGTCCACGTA TGATATGTGT GTTTCAGTAT GTGTGTTTCT  - #                 3000                                                                          - - AATAAGTGAG GAAGTGGCTG TCCTGAATTG CTGTAACAAG CACACTATTT  - #                 3050                                                                          - - ATATGCCCTG ACCACCATAG GATGCTAGTC TTTGTGACCG ATTGCTAATC  - #                 3100                                                                          - - TTCTGCACTT TAATTTATTT TATATAAACT TTACCCATGG TTCAAAGATT  - #                 3150                                                                          - - TTTTTTTCTT TTTCTCATAT AAGAAATCTA GGTGTAAATA TTGAGTACAG  - #                 3200                                                                          - - AAAAAAAATC TTCATGATGT GTATTGAGCG GTACGCCCAG TTGCCACCAT  - #                 3250                                                                          - - GACTGAGTCT TCTCAGTTGA CAATGAAGTA GCCTTTTAAA GCTAGAAAAC  - #                 3300                                                                          - - TGTCAAAGGG CTTCTGAGTT TCATTTCCAG TCACAAAAAT CAGTATTGTT  - #                 3350                                                                          - - ATTTTTTTCC AAGAGTGTGA AGGAAAATGG GGCAATTCCT TTCCACTCTG  - #                 3400                                                                          - - GCATAGTTCA TGAGCTTAAT ACATAGCTTT CTTTTAAGAA AGGAGCCTTT  - #                 3450                                                                          - - TTTTTCAACT AGCTTCCTGG GGTAAACTTT TCTAAAAGAT AAAATGGGAA  - #                 3500                                                                          - - GGAACTCCAA ACTATGATAG AATCTGTGTG AATGGTTAAG ATGAATGTTA  - #                 3550                                                                          - - AATACTATGC TTTTTTGTAA GTTGATCGTA TCTGATGTCT GTGGGACTAA  - #                 3600                                                                          - - CTGTATCACT TAATTTTTAC CTTATTTTGG CTCTAATTTG AATAAGCTGA  - #                 3650                                                                          - - GTAAAACCAC CAAAGATCAG TTATAGGATA AAATGGCATC TCTAACCATA  - #                 3700                                                                          - - ACACAGGAGA ATTGGAAGGA GCCCTAAGTT GTCACTCAGT TTAATTTCTT  - #                 3750                                                                          - - TTAATGGTTA GTTTAGCCTA AAGATTTATC TGCATATTCT TTTTCCCATG  - #                 3800                                                                          - - TGGCTCTACT CATTTGCAAC TGAATTTAAT GTTATAACTC ATCTAGTGAG  - #                 3850                                                                          - - ACCAACTTAC TAAATTTTTA GTATGCACTG AAAGTTTTTA TCCAACAATT  - #                 3900                                                                          - - ATGTTCATTT TAAGCAAAAT TTTAAGAAAG TTTTGAAATT CATAAAGCAT  - #                 3950                                                                          - - TTGGTTTTAA ACTATTTTAA GAATATAGTA CTCGGTCAGG TATGNNNCAC  - #                 4000                                                                          - - GCCTGTAATC CCAGCACTTT GGGAGGCCGA AACAGGCGAA TCACTTGAGC  - #                 4050                                                                          - - CCAGGAGTTC AAGACCAACA TGGGCAATGT GGCGAAACTC CATCTCTACA  - #                 4100                                                                          - - AAAAATGCAA AAATAAAAAA TATAGTACTC AAGTATTCTT GATCCTGTGT  - #                 4150                                                                          - - TTCAAAACTA GAATTTGTAA TGCAAATGGA GCTCAGTCTA ATAAAAAAGA  - #                 4200                                                                          - - GGTTTTGGTA TTAAAAGTTC ATACATTAGA CAGTATCAGC CAAAATTTGA  - #                 4250                                                                          - - GTTAGCAACA CTGTTTTCTT TACGAGAGGG TCTCACCCAA ATTTATGGGG  - #                 4300                                                                          - - AGAAATCTAT TTCTCAAAAA AAAAAAATCT TCTTTTACAG AAATGTTGAG  - #                 4350                                                                          - - TAAGGTGACA TTTTGAGCGC TAATAAGCAA AAGAGCATGC AGTGCTGTTG  - #                 4400                                                                          - - AATAACCCTC ACTTGGAGAA CCAAGAGAAT CCTGTCGTTT AATGCTATAT  - #                 4450                                                                          - - TTTAATTTCA CAAGTTGTTC ATTTAACTGG TAGAATGTCA GTCCAATCTC  - #                 4500                                                                          - - CAATGAGAAC ATGAGCAAAT AGACCTTTCC AGGTTGAAAG TGAAACATAC  - #                 4550                                                                          - - TGGGTTTCTG TAAGTTTTTC CTCATGGCTT CATCTCTATC TTTACTTTCT  - #                 4600                                                                          - - CTTGAATATG CTACACAAAG TTCTTTATTA CTACATACTA AAGTTTGCAT  - #                 4650                                                                          - - TCCAGGGATA TTGACTGTAC ATATTTATGT ATATGTACCA TGTTGTTACA  - #                 4700                                                                          - - TGTAAACAAA CTTCAATTTG AAGTGCAGCT ATTATGTGGT ATCCATGTGT  - #                 4750                                                                          - - ATCGACCATG TGCCATATAT CAATTATGGT CACTAGAAAG TCTCTTTATG  - #                 4800                                                                          - - ATACTTTTTA TTGTACTGTT TTTCATTTCA CTTGCAAAAT TTTGCAGAAT  - #                 4850                                                                          - - TCCTCCTTTC TACCCATAAA TTACATATAA TTTTTCTTCT TTAGTCATGG  - #                 4900                                                                          - - AGAACNCCCC CCCATCATCT CANCCCTATT ANCTTTCCCA TGTGTACTGG  - #                 4950                                                                          - - TATTATTAAA AAGACATTTA CATACGCAAG TTTTTCACTG ACAANCAAGA  - #                 5000                                                                          - - ATGTTATTAA TGTGTAATAC TGAGCACNTT TACTTCTTAA TAAAAACTTG  - #                 5050                                                                          - - ATATANT                 - #                  - #                  -      #        5057                                                                    - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:7:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 968 amino - #acids                                                 (B) TYPE: amino acid                                                           (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: peptide                                              - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 7:                          - - Met Val Asn Ser Ser Arg Val Gln Pro Gln Gl - #n Pro Gly Asp Ala Lys       1               5   - #                10  - #                15                - - Arg Pro Pro Ala Pro Arg Ala Pro Asp Pro Gl - #y Arg Leu Met Ala Gly                   20      - #            25      - #            30                    - - Cys Ala Ala Val Gly Ala Ser Leu Ala Ala Pr - #o Gly Gly Leu Cys Glu               35          - #        40          - #        45                        - - Gln Arg Gly Leu Glu Ile Glu Met Gln Arg Il - #e Arg Gln Ala Ala Ala           50              - #    55              - #    60                            - - Arg Asp Pro Pro Ala Gly Ala Ala Ala Ser Pr - #o Ser Pro Pro Leu Ser       65                  - #70                  - #75                  - #80         - - Ser Cys Ser Arg Gln Ala Trp Ser Arg Asp As - #n Pro Gly Phe Glu Ala                       85  - #                90  - #                95                - - Glu Glu Glu Glu Glu Glu Val Glu Gly Glu Gl - #u Gly Gly Met Val Val                   100      - #           105      - #           110                   - - Glu Met Asp Val Glu Trp Arg Pro Gly Ser Ar - #g Arg Ser Ala Ala Ser               115          - #       120          - #       125                       - - Ser Ala Val Ser Ser Val Gly Ala Arg Ser Ar - #g Gly Leu Gly Gly Tyr           130              - #   135              - #   140                           - - His Gly Ala Gly His Pro Ser Gly Arg Arg Ar - #g Arg Arg Glu Asp Gln       145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -       #60                                                                               - - Gly Pro Pro Cys Pro Ser Pro Val Gly Gly Gl - #y Asp Pro Leu His         Arg                                                                                              165  - #               170  - #               175              - - His Leu Pro Leu Glu Gly Gln Pro Pro Arg Va - #l Ala Trp Ala Glu Arg                   180      - #           185      - #           190                   - - Leu Val Arg Gly Leu Arg Gly Leu Trp Gly Th - #r Arg Leu Met Glu Glu               195          - #       200          - #       205                       - - Ser Ser Thr Asn Arg Glu Lys Tyr Leu Lys Se - #r Val Leu Arg Glu Leu           210              - #   215              - #   220                           - - Val Thr Tyr Leu Leu Phe Leu Ile Val Leu Cy - #s Ile Leu Thr Tyr Gly       225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -       #40                                                                               - - Met Met Ser Ser Asn Val Tyr Tyr Tyr Thr Ar - #g Met Met Ser Gln         Leu                                                                                              245  - #               250  - #               255              - - Phe Leu Asp Thr Pro Val Ser Lys Thr Glu Ly - #s Thr Asn Phe Lys Thr                   260      - #           265      - #           270                   - - Leu Ser Ser Met Glu Asp Phe Trp Lys Phe Th - #r Glu Gly Ser Leu Leu               275          - #       280          - #       285                       - - Asp Gly Leu Tyr Trp Lys Met Gln Pro Ser As - #n Gln Thr Glu Ala Asp           290              - #   295              - #   300                           - - Asn Arg Ser Phe Ile Phe Tyr Glu Asn Leu Le - #u Leu Gly Val Pro Arg       305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -       #20                                                                               - - Ile Arg Gln Leu Arg Val Arg Asn Gly Ser Cy - #s Ser Ile Pro Gln         Asp                                                                                              325  - #               330  - #               335              - - Leu Arg Asp Glu Ile Lys Glu Cys Tyr Asp Va - #l Tyr Ser Val Ser Ser                   340      - #           345      - #           350                   - - Glu Asp Arg Ala Pro Phe Gly Pro Arg Asn Gl - #y Thr Ala Trp Ile Tyr               355          - #       360          - #       365                       - - Thr Ser Glu Lys Asp Leu Asn Gly Ser Ser Hi - #s Trp Gly Ile Ile Ala           370              - #   375              - #   380                           - - Thr Tyr Ser Gly Ala Gly Tyr Tyr Leu Asp Le - #u Ser Arg Thr Arg Glu       385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -       #00                                                                               - - Glu Thr Ala Ala Gln Val Ala Ser Leu Lys Ly - #s Asn Val Trp Leu         Asp                                                                                              405  - #               410  - #               415              - - Arg Gly Thr Arg Ala Thr Phe Ile Asp Phe Se - #r Val Tyr Asn Ala Asn                   420      - #           425      - #           430                   - - Ile Asn Leu Phe Cys Val Val Arg Leu Leu Va - #l Glu Phe Pro Ala Thr               435          - #       440          - #       445                       - - Gly Gly Val Ile Pro Ser Trp Gln Phe Gln Pr - #o Leu Lys Leu Ile Arg           450              - #   455              - #   460                           - - Tyr Val Thr Thr Phe Asp Phe Phe Leu Ala Al - #a Cys Glu Ile Ile Phe       465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -       #80                                                                               - - Cys Phe Phe Ile Phe Tyr Tyr Val Val Glu Gl - #u Ile Leu Glu Ile         Arg                                                                                              485  - #               490  - #               495              - - Ile His Lys Leu His Tyr Phe Arg Ser Phe Tr - #p Asn Cys Leu Asp Val                   500      - #           505      - #           510                   - - Val Ile Val Val Leu Ser Val Val Ala Ile Gl - #y Ile Asn Ile Tyr Arg               515          - #       520          - #       525                       - - Thr Ser Asn Val Glu Val Leu Leu Gln Phe Le - #u Glu Asp Gln Asn Thr           530              - #   535              - #   540                           - - Phe Pro Asn Phe Glu His Leu Ala Tyr Trp Gl - #n Ile Gln Phe Asn Asn       545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -       #60                                                                               - - Ile Ala Ala Val Thr Val Phe Phe Val Trp Il - #e Lys Leu Phe Lys         Phe                                                                                              565  - #               570  - #               575              - - Ile Asn Phe Asn Arg Thr Met Ser Gln Leu Se - #r Thr Thr Met Ser Arg                   580      - #           585      - #           590                   - - Cys Ala Lys Asp Leu Phe Gly Phe Ala Ile Me - #t Phe Phe Ile Ile Phe               595          - #       600          - #       605                       - - Leu Ala Tyr Ala Gln Leu Ala Tyr Leu Val Ph - #e Gly Thr Gln Val Asp           610              - #   615              - #   620                           - - Asp Phe Ser Thr Phe Gln Glu Cys Ile Phe Th - #r Gln Phe Arg Ile Ile       625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -       #40                                                                               - - Leu Gly Asp Ile Asn Phe Ala Glu Ile Glu Gl - #u Ala Asn Arg Val         Leu                                                                                              645  - #               650  - #               655              - - Gly Pro Ile Tyr Phe Thr Thr Phe Val Phe Ph - #e Met Phe Phe Ile Leu                   660      - #           665      - #           670                   - - Leu Asn Met Phe Leu Ala Ile Ile Asn Asp Th - #r Tyr Ser Glu Val Lys               675          - #       680          - #       685                       - - Ser Asp Leu Ala Gln Gln Lys Ala Glu Met Gl - #u Leu Ser Asp Leu Ile           690              - #   695              - #   700                           - - Arg Lys Gly Tyr His Lys Ala Leu Val Lys Le - #u Lys Leu Lys Lys Asn       705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -       #20                                                                               - - Thr Val Asp Asp Ile Ser Glu Ser Leu Arg Gl - #n Gly Gly Gly Lys         Leu                                                                                              725  - #               730  - #               735              - - Asn Phe Asp Glu Leu Arg Gln Asp Leu Lys Gl - #y Lys Gly His Thr Asp                   740      - #           745      - #           750                   - - Ala Glu Ile Glu Ala Ile Phe Thr Lys Tyr As - #p Gln Asp Gly Asp Gln               755          - #       760          - #       765                       - - Glu Leu Thr Glu His Glu His Gln Gln Met Ar - #g Asp Asp Leu Glu Lys           770              - #   775              - #   780                           - - Glu Arg Glu Asp Leu Asp Leu Asp His Ser Se - #r Leu Pro Arg Pro Met       785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -       #00                                                                               - - Ser Ser Arg Ser Phe Pro Arg Ser Leu Asp As - #p Ser Glu Glu Asp         Asp                                                                                              805  - #               810  - #               815              - - Asp Glu Asp Ser Gly His Ser Ser Arg Arg Ar - #g Gly Ser Ile Ser Ser                   820      - #           825      - #           830                   - - Gly Val Ser Tyr Glu Glu Phe Gln Val Leu Va - #l Arg Arg Val Asp Arg               835          - #       840          - #       845                       - - Met Glu His Ser Ile Gly Ser Ile Val Ser Ly - #s Ile Asp Ala Val Ile           850              - #   855              - #   860                           - - Val Lys Leu Glu Ile Met Glu Arg Ala Lys Le - #u Lys Arg Arg Glu Val       865                 8 - #70                 8 - #75                 8 -       #80                                                                               - - Leu Gly Arg Leu Leu Asp Gly Val Ala Glu As - #p Glu Arg Leu Gly         Arg                                                                                              885  - #               890  - #               895              - - Asp Ser Glu Ile His Arg Glu Gln Met Glu Ar - #g Leu Val Arg Glu Glu                   900      - #           905      - #           910                   - - Leu Glu Arg Trp Glu Ser Asp Asp Ala Ala Se - #r Gln Ile Ser His Gly               915          - #       920          - #       925                       - - Leu Gly Thr Pro Val Gly Leu Asn Gly Gln Pr - #o Arg Pro Arg Ser Ser           930              - #   935              - #   940                           - - Arg Pro Ser Ser Ser Gln Ser Thr Glu Gly Me - #t Glu Gly Ala Gly Gly       945                 9 - #50                 9 - #55                 9 -       #60                                                                               - - Asn Gly Ser Ser Asn Val His Val                                                           965                                                             - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:8:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 19 nucleic - #acids                                                (B) TYPE: nucleic acid                                                         (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: genomic - #DNA                                       - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 8:                          - - GGGCTACCAT AAAGCTTTG             - #                  - #                       - # 19                                                                   - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:9:                                      - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 20 nucleic - #acids                                                (B) TYPE: nucleic acid                                                         (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: genomic - #DNA                                       - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 9:                          - - GTTCATGTTC GATCAGTTCT            - #                  - #                       - # 20                                                                    - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:10:                                     - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 23 nucleic - #acids                                                (B) TYPE: nucleic acid                                                         (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: genomic - #DNA                                       - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 10:                         - - GGGCTAGAAA TACTCTTATC ACC           - #                  - #                     23                                                                       - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:11:                                     - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 20 nucleic - #acids                                                (B) TYPE: nucleic acid                                                         (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: genomic - #DNA                                       - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 11:                         - - GCCTCAAGTG TTCCACTGAT            - #                  - #                       - # 20                                                                    - -  - - (2) INFORMATION FOR SEQ ID NO:12:                                     - -      (i) SEQUENCE CHARACTERISTICS:                                                  (A) LENGTH: 22 nucleic - #acids                                                (B) TYPE: nucleic acid                                                         (C) STRANDEDNESS:  sing - #le                                                  (D) TOPOLOGY:  linear                                                 - -     (ii) MOLECULE TYPE:                                                             (A) DESCRIPTION: genomic - #DNA                                       - -    (iii) HYPOTHETICAL:  NO                                                 - -     (xi) SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION:  SEQ ID NO: - # 12:                         - - AGGTTTTTCT GGGTAACCCT AG           - #                  - #                      22                                                                     __________________________________________________________________________ 

What is claimed:
 1. A purified and isolated PKD2 nucleic acid encoding the amino acid sequence contained in FIG. 5 (SEQ ID NO: 7).
 2. The nucleic acid of claim 1 having the nucleotide sequence contained in FIG. 5 (SEQ ID NO: 6).
 3. The nucleic acid of claim 1 having one or more deletion, insertion, point or rearrangement mutations associated with polycystic kidney disease.
 4. The nucleic acid of claim 2 having one or more deletion, insertion, point or rearrangement mutations associated with polycystic kidney disease. 